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" forehead, lores, and crown " were " dark chestnut/' but 

 these parts in reality were black. 



This bird was first collected in Australia (probably in 

 Arnhem Land, so far its only known habitat) by Robert 

 Brown about the year 1803, when he accompanied Captain 

 Flinders. A beautiful figure was made from the specimen 

 by Bauer, but no skin was preserved. This painting is now 

 in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. 



About the year 1909 numbers of these birds were brought 

 to Europe via Sydney. While in Sydney they were examined 

 by Mr. A. J. North, who, believing them to be new, 

 described a specimen in the ' Victoria Naturalist/ vol. xxv. 

 p. 176 (1909), under the name Psephotus cucullatus. 



After the birds arrived in Europe Mr. Blaauw purchased 

 some, and Dr. Van Oort, who also considered them to be 

 undescribed and knew nothing of Mr. North's action, named 

 a specimen P. chrysopterygius blaauwi [cf. Notes Leyden 

 Mus. vol. xxxii. p. 71 (1912)]. 



It was obvious that the birds described by Mr. North and 

 Dr. Van Oort were of the same species ; the latter had sent 

 his type specimen for examination to Mr. Mathews, who had 

 compared it with the type of P. dissimilis and found them to 

 be identical. 



Mr. D. A. Bannerman described a new species of Thrush 

 collected by Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton in Rhodesia. He 

 proposed to name it 



TURDUS SWYNNERTON I, Sp. U. 



Turdus cabanisi Swynnerton (nec Bonap.), Ibis, 1907, 

 p. 60. 



Turdus milanjensis Swynnerton (*nec Shelley), Ibis, 1908, 

 p. 81. 



Adult male and female. General colour above olive-brown, 

 becoming lighter on the lores and cheeks ; wing-coverts like 

 the back • primaries dark brown, as also the tail. Chin and 

 throat white, tinged with bun 0 , boldly streaked with black. 



